Unsettled by the disparities in their recollections, each is desperate to prove they knew Michael better and come to terms with why he would kill himself. ![]() Stalking each other with equal parts curiosity and revulsion, Meredith and Josie both feel ownership over Michael’s memory. Meanwhile, the scrappy, punk-rock Josie (a luminous Alia Shawkat) has lost her lover and is left adrift in their makeshift haven, a red-walled apartment covered in murals and filled with salvaged furniture. For the imperious, upper-class Meredith (a wild-eyed Janet McTeer, icy and unhinged), the devastating loss of her only son brings yet another ghost into her family home, a blue-walled mansion in which the air is already thick with secrets. Like White Oleander (which made it to the big screen in 2002 with Michelle Pfeiffer and Alison Lohman in the lead roles), Paint It Black is a story of an older woman and a younger woman competing for territory: The two women are grieving a boy named Michael in the wake of his suicide. “She made happen with a single, maniacal vision,” she told me. However, over Scorpions in a tiki bar with Tamblyn and their mutual friend, the poet Derrick Brown, Fitch found herself impressed with Tamblyn’s obvious and persistent passion for the project. The drama is a film adaptation of Janet Fitch’s 2006 book of the same name, the follow-up to her celebrated novel White Oleander.įrustrated by an earlier experience trying to sell the film rights to the book, Fitch had been reluctant to try her luck again. ![]() Alia Shawkat plays a punk rock Los Angeleno in Paint It Black.Īfter some 10 years in the making, actor and poet Amber Tamblyn’s firecracker directorial debut, Paint It Black, premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival last month.
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